From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: setsysfont turns the display black when connected with TV only connection on ATI cards and others. via epia including the epia800 and M1000 boards also fail in a similar way. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: TV only modes are produced when only TV hardware is present on ATI chipsits, so to reproduce connect only the TV output of an ATI card then boot core1,2 or 3 Additional info: All redhat versions effected in the same way. Its worth fixing as the framebuf X mode works for tv out if setsysfont is excluded.
setsysfont merely calls the kbd tools. CCing kbd maintainer. Assigning kernel-wise to see why loading the font blanks the display - smells like a fbcon bug.
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